Rahma

“الكعبة ليست غرفة نطوف حولها
عش تاريخها
تخيل الملائكة وهي تبنيها
تخيل الطوفان يُغرقها
تخيل إسماعيل يناول أباه الحجارة ليبنيها من جديد
تخيلهما يحباك قبل أن يعرفاك
«وابعث فيهم رسولاً منهم»
تخيله بأبي هو وأمي حيث الآن أنت تطوف
ينادي فيهم «اذهبوا فأنتم الطلقاء»”
― أدهم شرقاوي, حديث الصباح

“الأموات يحزمون حقائبهم
يضعون فيها حسناتهم وسيئاتهم ويرحلون
حقائب المسافرين إلى الآخرة لا تتسع إلا لهذا”
― أدهم شرقاوي, حديث الصباح

“There are moments when the future looks so black that one is afraid to let one's thoughts dwell on it, refuses to let one's mind function and tries to convince oneself that the future will not be, and the past has not been. At such moments, when the will is not governed or modified by reflection and the only incentives that remain in life are our physical instincts, I can understand how a child, being particularly prone owing to lack of experience to fall into such a state, may without the least hesitation or fear, with a smile of curiosity deliberately set fire to his own house - and then fan the flames where is brothers, his father an his mother, all of who he loves dearly, are sleeping.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Childhood, Boyhood, Youth

“history is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books—books which glorify their own cause and disparage the conquered foe.”
― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code